Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321946393
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, Kathryn A. Szabat
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Chapter 2, Problem 50PS
Movie companies need to predict the gross receipts of individual movies once a movie has debuted. The following results, stored in PotterMovies, are the first weekend gross, and worldwide
a. Construct a
b. Construct a scatter plot with first weekend gross on the
c. What can you say about the relationship between first weekend gross the U.S. gross the first weekend gross and worldwide gross?
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